Birmingham University Quotes

#1. One of my colleagues in Birmingham University, where I come from,' said Trevair, 'is a moral philosopher. He taught me that one of the ways to judge a course of action is to consider what company it puts one in. I doubt if that's very good philosophy, but I find it a good rule of thumb.

Jill Paton Walsh

#2. What are the secret of success?
-one word answer :"rational

Charles T. Munger

#3. I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.

Anne Waldman

#4. Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke.
Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

#5. To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

Maxwell Maltz

#6. But we're also taught that you're not a martyr if you blow yourself up in a marketplace, because you're killing civilians and other Muslims.

Maajid Nawaz

#7. Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Bernard Barton

#8. What's to analyze?" she said. "They're all crazy, so they became cops, and they're all cops, so they stay crazy.

James Patterson

#9. Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.'

Pete Rose

#10. Some mommies and daddies find it hard to accept
Kids who are different to the normal set.

Christina Engela

#11. Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

Louise Brown

#12. I'll never try to put on a fake image. I'm just Zac.

Zac Efron